John Stewart Collis
Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw. I need not explain this choice since I have just reviewed it for the Spectator. I would only add that it is one of those rare biographies which......
Be! Mooney
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Faber) and The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing (Cape) are, on the surface, very different kinds of book — the one written in prose that......
Naomi Mitch Ison
The only book I read for pleasure rather than work or a misplaced sense of duty in the early part of the year was Edward Blishen' s Shaky Relations (Hamish Hamilton) and oh, how......
Diana Quick
I had high hopes of The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas before reading it, having been completely engrossed by The Flute Player two years ago. The earlier work came back to haunt my......
A. L. Rowse
Duty and pleasure combined make me give the first place to Miss M. St. C. Byrne's edition of The Lisle Letters (Chicago University Press). These now beat the famous Paston......
Anthony Storr
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust (Chatto & Windus). Terrance Kilmartin's revision of Scott-Moncrieff's famous translation makes one return to, and enriches one's......
Nikolai Tolstoy
From a year's reading it was hard to pick the three books that have given the greatest pleasure. But I have little doubt that Macmillan's five-volume New American World tops the......
Raleigh Trevelyan
Italo Calvino has long been one of my favourite authors, and I greatly enjoyed his novel If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Secker and Warburg), a typical intellectual tease. I......
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